Monday Overnight Open Thread (8/13/18 )

The Quotes of The Day

Quote I

“I think conservatives have to make a case-by-case choice — there are actually some Democrat candidates out there who functionally now are to the right on economics of their Republican counterpart. It’s astounding,” Rick Wilson

There is liberal gun ignorance and then there is this. The Palm Beach Post is trying to raise the alarm over 3D printed guns but instead pushed the “lethality” of rubber band guns. I’m almost certain that other liberals who don’t know jack squat about firearms will be scared, but to the rest of us this is absolutely ridiculous. I mean I guess you could get an eye injury from taking a rubber band to the face, but the chances of death are nonexistent.

This article addresses transphobic ideas and may be triggering to some readers.

Scrolling through your social feeds in the recent years, you may have noticed a new acronym: TERF, or “trans-exclusionary radical feminist.” Originally coined in 2008, its popularity has mounted in tandem with both feminism and transgender acceptance and gained fringe traction via social media before rising into general use. Although TERF’s meaning is in its name, most people don’t know the specifics of what TERFs believe or want. You may only know that they are feminists who exclude trans people.

Social feeds? Where I come from that means the Volunteer Fire Department's Annual Chicken BBQ. I feel Woke when it comes with corn on the cob, coleslaw and a dinner roll with butter.

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The Fight for $15 takes another hit. Who needs janitors when you have trained crows?

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The ONT Musical Interlude

August 13, 1980, Four masked robbers broke in to Todd Rundgren's New York house and proceeded to steal Hi-Fi equipment and paintings after tying the musician up. It was reported that one of the intruders had been humming his hit 'I Saw The Light'. via thisdayinmusic.com

When an elderly man came to the rescue of a drowning boy earlier this week, his life-saving efforts revealed a surprising connection between the two of them.

80-year-old Xu Weifang had been resting in his Zhutang home when he heard someone crying for help from the river.

He and his wife rushed outside only to find an 8-year-old boy struggling to keep his head above the water. The youngster had been playing with his grandmother near the riverside when he accidentally fell in.

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